Graham Elliott

To make things really easy, why not use the ranking list from the previous year for selection and get rid of any qualification period altogether. ie. final list of 2016 season is the list used for international events in 2017 whatever time of year they are held. Could not be easier..

I don't mind going first on the subject. Having sailed in most of the ranking races up and down the country since the class started in the 80's it is obvious to me that it now needs to be run as a stand alone class with the owners running the class and take the burden away from the MYA. Over the last 4 years the MYA have taken me to lakes with weed, leaves, buoys that float away, multiple races in same district in the same calender year etc etc. The discussion on the bank is always the same, rubbish venue, rubbish race team etc. Instead of us all sitting round, which we do a lot of, lets take the burden away from the MYA and lets start organising the calender ourselves at lakes that suit our needs at times that are appropiate for that certain venue. We would not need a large committee to run the class, i would say just 2 or 3 would do the job.